oleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 9 months agoSmugglers melted and spray painted $10 million in gold to look like machine partswww.popsci.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1419arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: bitcoin
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minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·9 months agoYou’d think the first clue would be that gold is 2.5x heavier by volume than steel and is 7x heavier than aluminum.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·9 months agoI did the math lower down: Probably don’t notice when you’re using a forklift. My math says that’s 133 kg of gold. Not all that much. If you replaced the metal volume, the additional weight is approx 81 kg.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 months agoA kg of gold is worth ~75,500. You’re saying a kg is worth $60 million.
minus-squareforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·9 months ago 2.5x heavier by volume than steel reading that hurted my brain… just say denser 😣
You’d think the first clue would be that gold is 2.5x heavier by volume than steel and is 7x heavier than aluminum.
I did the math lower down:
Probably don’t notice when you’re using a forklift.
My math says that’s 133 kg of gold. Not all that much. If you replaced the metal volume, the additional weight is approx 81 kg.
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A kg of gold is worth ~75,500.
You’re saying a kg is worth $60 million.
reading that hurted my brain… just say denser 😣